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...future of Pier's talent depends on just how skillfully it is handled. MGM, now paying her $1,600 a month plus living expenses, well knows that her unspoiled naturalness is precisely what makes her Pier Angeli. Hence the studio's orders against gilding the lily: no eyebrow plucking, no greasepaint lathering for stills, no hair-dyeing or publicity whirls. Pier's next assignment: the part of a painter who regenerates a swindler (Stewart Granger) in The Light Touch, to be filmed in Tunis and Sicily...
...bones still tell tales. Peruvian doctors and radiologists who studied No. 49 decided that he was once a soldier, and about 5 ft. 7 in. tall. He suffered a terrible blow from a star-shaped mace that broke his nose and crushed the skull above his right eyebrow. This must have happened during a battle with Andean Indians, for only they used such maces. No. 49 recovered, perhaps with the help of skull surgery, which his people knew something about...
...supply them, scores of companies began to make electric eyebrow tweezers, hair dryers, lotions, face and scalp vibrators, automatic foot and leg massagers, and hundreds of other products, right down to special beauty-parlor furniture. Last year $100 million worth of such products were made, including about 10,000 permanent-wave machines, about 45,000 dryers, and more than 600 million pads used for protecting the scalp while the hair is being waved...
...lifted an eyebrow at Mrs. Matthews' contention that she had simply been a governess for his children and that she had been appropriately dressed when she leaped through the window. Mrs. Matthews had been engaged in a messy and sensational divorce fight with her own husband at the time of the tragedy, had led a "bedroom raid" of his apartment and had been accused of numerous infidelities in return...
...Then he indicated another arc closer to the port and said, "If they get to here, they'll be able to hit us with regular Chinese artillery." Somebody indicated a still smaller arc on the map and asked: "What happens when they get here?" The major cocked an eyebrow at his questioner, shrugged and replied, with an air of finality: "Then, we've had it." As it turned out, the Chinese had nothing heavier than mortars...